It's official. Three-quarters of my job has officially ended ( Read more... )

Writing is recovering. Miss it so much. Knitting is no replacement.

Also, this sweater I knitted is waaaay too big. But the OAR (overly ambitious rug) turned out well.

No more furniture has mysteriously disappeared from my office. However, the tutors are disappearing left and right. I'm covering for the admin while she's out of town, and I've ( Read more... )

I walked into the office to find five of our seven tutoring desks gone ( Read more... )

Am feeling vexed at the moment. So, like Musak, I am giving you this amusing video:

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Enjoy.

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Should I really be applying for a master's in teaching?

- What I really want is an MFA in writing, followed by teaching freshman comp.

But in all practicality, I'm seeing how the adjunct professor world works, and I can't become a "Beltway warrior," teaching at one college in the morning and another at night. I won't live in my car. I also need ( Read more... )

Well, the SAT tutoring business has been hurt by the sequestor. I live in the DC area, and obviously a lot of parents work in fields related to the government. The sequestor has cut their hours ( Read more... )

As of last night:The snow has begun. Fluffy white covers the ground ( Read more... )

That holiday party: maybe I don't get out much...

... but the er, uh, unpromising office holiday party turned out to be a whole lot of fun.

I admit, I may have spent a good amount of my time flirting with a cute stuffed toy of a coworker.

For twenty-five years I've managed to avoid the office Christmas party ( Read more... )

A sign I'm up too late (on a night I have to be at work at 9am):

Glancing up at the muted TV, I find teenage mutant ninja turtles. And then a penguin with a green-wrapped candy bar in the middle of a windstorm of garbage.

*watches, mute still on*

Am I the only one who finds (cheap) computer animation strange? These penguins look like